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2007ApJ...659L.121C - Astrophys. J., 659, L121-L124 (2007/April-3)

The bar pattern speed of dwarf galaxy NGC 4431.

CORSINI E.M., AGUERRI J.A.L., DEBATTISTA V.P., PIZZELLA A., BARAZZA F.D. and JERJEN H.

Abstract (from CDS):

We present surface photometry and stellar kinematics of NGC 4431, a barred dwarf galaxy in the Virgo Cluster undergoing a tidal interaction with one of its neighbors, NGC 4436. We measured its bar pattern speed using the Tremaine-Weinberg method and derived the ratio of the corotation radius, DL, to the bar semimajor axis, aB. We found DL/aB=0.6+1.2–0.4 at 99% confidence level. Albeit with large uncertainty, the probability that the bar ends close to its corotation radius (i.e., 1.0≤DL/aB≤1.4) is about twice as likely as that the bar is much shorter than the corotation radius (i.e., DL/aB>1.4).

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Journal keyword(s): Galaxies: Elliptical and Lenticular, cD - galaxies: individual (NGC 4431) - Galaxies: Kinematics and Dynamics - Galaxies: Photometry - Galaxies: Structure

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